Signed book: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. First British edition. London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1962. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5 x 8, 311 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free end page in black felt tip, “For Diane Collins: Strange. I was talking about you day-before-yesterday. Up at the intensive care in the Portland V. A. A good old buddy drunk a hole in his stomach and checked out. I was talking to the nurse about Jed. Came home. Got the fatal phone call just as Don Wood knocked on the door. Ouch! Ken Kesey.” Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG-/G+. A highly unusual inscription that references the “fatal phone call” that informed him of his son’s tragic death. In 1984, Kesey's 20-year-old son Jed, a wrestler for the University of Oregon, suffered severe head injuries in a vehicle accident on the way to a tournament; his death deeply affected Kesey, although the inscription here makes light of it. A unique inscription in Kesey’s most popular title. Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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